14-axis LMC replacement installed in 2012 on a Langston Saturn. The original encoders, wiring and enclosures were retained. Only the obsolete computer, monitor and keyboard were replaced. Original IDT terminal replaced with IMC’s flexoview.

Computer enclosure after installationupper right – Original Opto22 devicesupper left – Original encoder terminalsbottom left – New computer assembly

Front of operator console after installationon left – New flexoview, on right – New monitor & keyboard

Martin 924

24-axis MP2 replacement installed 2012

New operator’s station

on left – Original Martin I/O cables relocated from MP2 cabineton right – Signal converters to interface MP2 feedback sensors to Pacesetter

Langston Saturn FFG, vintage 1986

Older model 28-axis Pacesetter replaced LMC in 1997. New Pacesetter 2.0 computer hardware & software were installed in 2011 along with new A‑B PLC to replace original obsolete GE series 3 PLC.

5-axis Pacesetter installed in August 2005 on a four-color 50” Hooper printer slotter. This more than forty-year-old four-color machine was rugged and well maintained. The plant added reverse angle doctor blade flexo printing, lead edge feeder and IMC's Pacesetter. While the fast computer set-up was desirable, the principal advantage was freeing the operators from the need to “zero” or close the machine “in time” and the automatic return to last register after printing plate-cleaning stops. The result of these upgrades was a productive machine capable of high graphic printing with many of the features of the latest equipment, but at drastically lower cost.

Operator Station Next To Machine

Typical register encoding mounting

Mitsubishi FFG, vintage 1986

19-axis Pacesetter installed in August 2005 on a Summit 100 flexo folder gluer. The Pacesetter replaces the original obsolete, complex and difficult to maintain MHI system.

Operator Side View

Computer enclosure with open door

Operator's Console in front of folding section

Ward FFG, vintage 1973

8-axis Pacesetter installed in 2002 on a Ward. The machine was originally fitted with an 8-axis G&L computer, subsequently upgraded by Ward about twenty years later. We replaced Ward’s analog resolvers with new high-resolution digital encoders and replaced the obsolete Ward computer hardware within the original enclosure with a new industrial quality PC, new color flat panel display and computer keyboard.